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    Drama TV Shows - 1950s TV Shows - 1960s 2 Mins Read

    Riverboat

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    44 x 60 minute episodes

    The Enterprise was a 100-foot-long paddle steamer that churned up and down the Mississippi, Missouri, and Ohio rivers during the 1840s.

    The captain and owner of the boat was Grey Holden (Darren McGavin), a former fighter, rum-runner, swordsman, dock foreman, and soldier. A fun-loving romantic, Grey had won the boat in a poker game and was determined to make it a profitable venture, carrying passengers, hauling freight, and doing anything else it could to generate revenue.

    Boat pilot Ben Frazer (an early role from Burt Reynolds) was the co-lead when Riverboat first aired, an orphan whose entire life had been spent along the Mississippi.

    Both he and crew member Travis (William D Gordon) were written out of the series in the middle of its first season.

    When it returned in 1960, Riverboat had a new co-lead in Bill Blake (Noah Beery Jr), as a pilot who had bought 49% of the Enterprise and was constantly seeking to take a controlling interest.

    First mate Joshua (Jack Lambert) and crew member Carney (Richard Wessell) were still in the cast, but gone were cabin boy Chip (Mike McGreevey), ballad-singing cook Pickalong (Jack Mitchum), and Terry Blake (Bart Patten), the cub-pilot who had replaced Ben Frazer.

    Captain Holden spent more time away from the boat and got involved in more romantic entanglements than during the first season.

    Grey Holden
    Darren McGavin
    Ben Frazer
    Burt Reynolds
    Bill Blake
    Noah Beery Jr
    Travis
    William D Gordon
    Carney
    Richard Wessell
    Joshua
    Jack Lambert
    Chip
    Mike McGreevey
    Pickalong
    Jack Mitchum
    Terry Blake
    Bart Patten

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